Smart D8 Showcase 2025

Welcome to the Smart D8 Showcase 2025! Join us at the Digital Depot at The Digital Hub (Bay 01) for a day filled with innovative talks, inspiring roundtable and networking opportunities. Discover the latest advancements in population health and wellbeing and how they are shaping the future. Whether you're an industry professional, entrepreneur, researcher or simply a health enthusiast curious about what's next, this event is perfect for you. Get ready to be witness what the future holds at the Smart D8 Showcase 2025.

'Smart D8' is a population health demonstrator providing opportunities for indigenous and international innovators to investigate how smart technology and innovative approaches can be used to improve health and wellbeing in an urban population.

The Smart D8 Showcase is an in-person event; to hear more about the latest Smart D8 pilot projects’ innovations in population health and wellbeing, ranging across themes including (but not limited to) heart health, men's health, and early-stage cancer detection.

The showcase will give attendees an opportunity to:

• Learn about the collaboration from across 12 different public-facing organisations as part of the Smart D8 consortium.
• Experience the innovations happening through presentations from 2024 and 2025 Smart D8 pilot representatives.
• Meet Smart D8’s networks and collaborators, and explore future collaboration opportunities.

The event will include presentations from Smart D8 partners and the latest cohorts of pilots, panel roundtable discussions and Q&A, and conclude with networking opportunities.

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Speakers will be announced in due course. Current programme includes :

Panel Session 1 : Piloting Next-Generation Population Health (2025)

[ Format: Pilot Presentation + Joint Q&A ]

• A: Early-Stage Cancer Detection, by RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences
• B: Smart Heart, by PatientMPower in collaboration with St James’s Hospital
• C: Football Cooperative, by Football Cooperative CLG
• D: Smart D8 Community Engagement, by Smart D8 and collaborators incl. The Liberties Community Project (TLCP)
• Group Panel Q&A

Panel Session 2 : Beyond Pilots - Scaling Outcomes, Lessons and Learnings (2024)

[ Format: Pilot Roundtable + Joint Q&A ]

• A: Kids Speech Labs, by Kids Speech Labs Ltd.
• B: Digital Medication Management System, by Dublin Simon Community
• C: Access Information Map, by CP-Life Research Centre at RCSI
• D: Brain Health, by Global Brain Health Institute (GBHI)/Trinity College Dublin in collaboration with Outlandish Theatre (OT) Platform

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Smart D8 is focused on finding innovative solutions to improve the health and wellbeing of nearly 45,000 people living in Ireland’s capital city. Through funded pilot calls and partnerships, Smart D8 is facilitating future products and services showcasing their potential to positively impact people's lives nationally and internationally.

Smart D8 was shortlisted for The HealthTech Innovation of the Year in the Public Sector Digital Transformation Awards 2023, globally recognised as Innovation Finalist at Smart City Expo World Congress (SCEWC) 2023, awarded for Innovation in Public Administration by the European Public Sector Awards (EPSA) 2023-24 (Top 2.5% in Europe), Digital Community finalist at the .ie Digital Town Awards 2024, and most recently overall Citizen Engagement winner x MoveAhead at the eGovernment Awards 2025.